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单词 suborn
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Definition of suborn in English:

suborn

verb səˈbɔːnsəˈbɔrn
[with object]
  • Bribe or otherwise induce (someone) to commit an unlawful act such as perjury.

    he was accused of conspiring to suborn witnesses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Irrespective of the dimensions of the crime or the difficulty in obtaining justice, the role of the journalist is to assist the judicial process not to suborn it.
    • He was said to have tried to suborn the young king with lavish presents and urged him to exert his authority.
    • This could be construed as suborning perjury, a crime.
    • There was no reason to believe Wu would destroy evidence in the case or suborn perjury, the court said.
    • Responsibility entailed either committing the perjury himself; or suborning the perjury; or permitting the court to act on evidence that he knew to have been perjured even though he had not suborned it.
    • Small groups of Canadian Fenians would cut the telegraph lines, destroy the railway bridge that connected Canada West and Canada East, infiltrate the Canadian militia, and suborn British soldiers.
    • Among other things, they were to suborn Irish soldiers in the British army, spike the weapons and artillery of those troops who remained loyal, and seize or destroy military installations.
    • Clark has a long history of accusation of unethical acts from suborning perjury to driving under the influence of marijuana.
    • In the Best Bakery case it is obvious that the police has been remiss in investigation and there is also reason to believe that witnesses were suborned.
    • Others are cowed or constrained or suborned by the corporations for which they work.
    • That is, he might have felt that not only might he be charged with suborning perjury if he put her on the stand, he might actually be suborning perjury.
    • Physicians known to be guilty of gross negligence are allowed to continue to practice. Lawyers who obviously suborn perjury are not disbarred.
    • Could evidence have been led of what the prosecution alleged was an attempt to suborn the witness?
    • The more time one spends with Armstrong, however, the more one suspects that the focus of his fury is not the implication that he tried to suborn Cogut's perjury.
    • And that's obstruction of justice, that's suborning perjury, and that's our case in California.
    • And I said, the congressman himself who knows this thing is false, is asking you to suborn perjury?
    • International ventures abounded even at a time when the British government tried desperately to contain efforts to suborn workers.
    • The potential perjury obstruction of justice and suborning a witness is a sideshow?
    • Not realizing that their resident translator had been suborned by the invader, the villagers, with no other form of communication, decided to wait for the weekly boat from the larger nearby island of Kaui.
    • A lawyer must help his client to put on as strong a case as possible, but a lawyer may not suborn perjury.
    Synonyms
    bribe, corrupt, buy, buy off, pay off, get at, induce, lure, entice, grease someone's palm, oil someone's hand, oil someone's palm

Derivatives

  • subornation

  • noun
    • OK, so then where's the subornation of perjury if somebody handed you an affidavit and said if it's not true, make changes or deletions?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Federal prosecutions like this are a travesty of justice - with plea bargains being used as straight-out subornation of witnesses.
      • It was about obstruction of justice, subornation of perjury, witness tampering.
      • Every person who, by willful perjury or subornation of perjury procures the conviction and execution of any innocent person, is punishable by death or life imprisonment without possibility of parole.
  • suborner

  • noun səˈbɔːnəsəˈbɔrnər
    • Blackmailing the suborners gets Harris the money, independence and power he craves.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He symbolizes the new political aristocracy that includes corporate suborners and media patronizers.
      • The face of this, as of other prostitutions, varies with the time: perjurers in their youth, they become suborners of perjury in their old age.
      • We can live with a perjurer in the White House, and a suborner of perjury, and an obstructor of justice.
      • Don't kid yourself: Human life is full of artificiality, perversion, and misery, much of which is caused by the most sniffish suborners of perjury you'll ever see.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin subornare 'incite secretly', from sub- 'secretly' + ornare 'equip'.

Rhymes

adorn, born, borne, bourn, Braun, brawn, corn, dawn, drawn, faun, fawn, forborne, forewarn, forlorn, freeborn, lawn, lorn, morn, mourn, newborn, Norn, outworn, pawn, prawn, Quorn, sawn, scorn, Sean, shorn, spawn, sworn, thorn, thrawn, torn, Vaughan, warn, withdrawn, worn, yawn
 
 

Definition of suborn in US English:

suborn

verbsəˈbôrnsəˈbɔrn
[with object]
  • Bribe or otherwise induce (someone) to commit an unlawful act such as perjury.

    he was accused of conspiring to suborn witnesses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Clark has a long history of accusation of unethical acts from suborning perjury to driving under the influence of marijuana.
    • He was said to have tried to suborn the young king with lavish presents and urged him to exert his authority.
    • That is, he might have felt that not only might he be charged with suborning perjury if he put her on the stand, he might actually be suborning perjury.
    • Among other things, they were to suborn Irish soldiers in the British army, spike the weapons and artillery of those troops who remained loyal, and seize or destroy military installations.
    • The potential perjury obstruction of justice and suborning a witness is a sideshow?
    • And I said, the congressman himself who knows this thing is false, is asking you to suborn perjury?
    • Irrespective of the dimensions of the crime or the difficulty in obtaining justice, the role of the journalist is to assist the judicial process not to suborn it.
    • This could be construed as suborning perjury, a crime.
    • A lawyer must help his client to put on as strong a case as possible, but a lawyer may not suborn perjury.
    • And that's obstruction of justice, that's suborning perjury, and that's our case in California.
    • In the Best Bakery case it is obvious that the police has been remiss in investigation and there is also reason to believe that witnesses were suborned.
    • Small groups of Canadian Fenians would cut the telegraph lines, destroy the railway bridge that connected Canada West and Canada East, infiltrate the Canadian militia, and suborn British soldiers.
    • Responsibility entailed either committing the perjury himself; or suborning the perjury; or permitting the court to act on evidence that he knew to have been perjured even though he had not suborned it.
    • The more time one spends with Armstrong, however, the more one suspects that the focus of his fury is not the implication that he tried to suborn Cogut's perjury.
    • Could evidence have been led of what the prosecution alleged was an attempt to suborn the witness?
    • Not realizing that their resident translator had been suborned by the invader, the villagers, with no other form of communication, decided to wait for the weekly boat from the larger nearby island of Kaui.
    • International ventures abounded even at a time when the British government tried desperately to contain efforts to suborn workers.
    • Others are cowed or constrained or suborned by the corporations for which they work.
    • There was no reason to believe Wu would destroy evidence in the case or suborn perjury, the court said.
    • Physicians known to be guilty of gross negligence are allowed to continue to practice. Lawyers who obviously suborn perjury are not disbarred.
    Synonyms
    bribe, corrupt, buy, buy off, pay off, get at, induce, lure, entice, grease someone's palm, oil someone's hand, oil someone's palm

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin subornare ‘incite secretly’, from sub- ‘secretly’ + ornare ‘equip’.

 
 
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